I mean like people like parents/siblings/spouses/significant others/kids/roomates/housemates…

I mean, I have paranoia about other things too (such as germaphobia/mysophobia), but specifically on this issue of people snooping, is amongst one of my top fears, and I’m just curious if other have this similar fear/paranoia.

Like every time I wake up, I wonder if my parents or brother put some malware/spyware on my phone because they think its a funny prank or whatever.

Every time I enter my PIN for my phone, I always cover the screen before entering it in case my parents have cameras in the house. And even more so in public, I’d fear CCTV getting my PIN.

[No, I have not been diagnosed with schizophrenia, I don’t hallucinate or anything like that. (But I do have a diagnosis of depression.)]

[This is distinct from the common fears of government surveillance or whatever. That, strangely enough, I fear much less, since I’m just one in hundreds of millions of people that they would care about, so I’m not so worried about that.]

  • mehdi_benadelA
    5·
    1 day ago

    Being wary is a thing but constantly worrying is an issue. Either you can trust your family enough to not do that or you should wonder about living on your own. But you gotta make sure you are not falling into paranoia. It is a concerning disease and you should be careful not to fall into it.

    • osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org
      3·
      2 days ago

      But you gotta make sure you are not falling into paranoia. It is a concerning disease and you should be careful not to fall into it.

      If this is where they’re at, they are already elbow deep into that sticky soup of paranoia.